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2nd Duke of Bedford

Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford (see here),
had issue:

John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (see here),
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 1756-61,
Chancellor of TCD, portrait in Provost's House,
the Bedford Tower in Dublin Castle is after him,
had issue:

Francis Russell, Marquess of Tavistock,
mar Lady Elizabeth Keppel [descendant of Charles II] and had issue:

John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford,
Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 1806-7,
had issue:

Rt Hon Lord John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (and here and here), born 1792,
Prime Minister 1846-52 and 1865-6,
presided over the Irish Famine 1845-50 in which 1 million Irish died, and the population was nearly halved by death and emigration, while food continued to be exported from the country and rent continued to be extorted from the starving people,
died 1878,
had issue:

John Russell, Viscount Amberley, born 1842,
mar Katherine Stanley [descendant of James II, see descent by Leo van de Pas],
she died 1874,
he died 1876 (see his deathbed),
had issue:

1. Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (and here),
   the famous mathematician, philosopher and atheist,
   born 1872, educ Trinity College, Cambridge,
   Nobel Prize for Literature 1950,
   died 1970.

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• For Bertrand Russell's possible descent from The Prophet Muhammad see here.

• Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford (then the Marquess of Tavistock) was a notorious British "pacifist" / anti-semite / fascist-sympathiser of the 1930s and WW2.